Networking · Flashcard

What do you gain, and what do you give up, by terminating TLS at the load balancer?

medium API design

Answer

Gain: the load balancer can read HTTP and route by path or header, certificates live in one place, and app servers skip the encryption work. Give up: traffic behind the load balancer is plaintext unless you re-encrypt it to the backends, which security rules often require.

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